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TIME
FOR LOVING... Yellow may be the sign
of jealousy, but it’s also a great color when it comes
to roses, something we should all be thinking of February 14.
The
County Weighs In
Legislature Gets Ready To Back Up Congressman’s
Crossroads’ Compromise
2/2/2006
By Phoenicia Times Staff
After only one month in power, the Democratic Majority of the
Ulster County Legislature is already weighing in on the Belleayre
Resort at Catskill Park, a mammoth development project planned
for the hills of Big Indian, Pine Hill and Highmount, and are
poised to back a plan floated last fall by Congressman Maurice
Hinchey to scale the project back.
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The
Coalition Takes Sides
Watershed Towns Back Olive In Large Parcel Language
Change Battle
2/2/2006 By Phoenicia
Times Staff
It was a nearly unanimous decision by the Coalition of Watershed
Towns Executive Committee that it’s within its rights to
get involved with the controversial large parcel legislation.
At a special meeting Monday night, only Robert Cross Jr. of Shandaken
voted against the idea. The issue was whether or not the Coalition
was within the parameters of its mission statement if it decided
to consider a request from the towns of Olive and Neversink to
ask the State legislature to amend the large parcel law. According
to Olive’s Bruce LaMonda, his town wants New York City reservoirs
to be excluded from the law. Currently those reservoirs are included,
and as a result both towns stand to be hit with major increases
should the surrounding County’s and school districts chose
to use the law.
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Calling
In The Feds Now
Hinchey Asks Army Corps Of Engineers To Help Stem
Reservoir Flooding
2/2/2006 By Phoenicia
Times Staff
At a press conference in his Kingston office last week, Congressman
Maurice Hinchey formally called for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
to assist the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
with its dam inspections in the New York City Watershed where
the City owns and maintains five reservoirs. The Congressman also
called for the Army Corps to be involved in helping the City develop
flood prevention strategies.
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Sewer
Site Purchased
Property Seems To Have Been A Gitter Holding...
1/19/06
The town of Shandaken continues its steady momentum
toward building an $11 million waste treatment system
for Phoenicia. On Monday, January 2nd the town board
approved a resolution to purchase land alongside
route 28 for use as the treatment plants main site.
The purchase of the land, a 1.3 acre parcel for
$50,000, was made following a recommendation to
do so by the Phoenicia wastewater committee, a group
of citizens appointed by the town board to handle
the project. The land borders another parcel the
town acquired earlier this year for the site. The
sewer committee says having both properties will
make it easier to less expensive to design the plant.
Committee members also say the purchase of the second
property will enable the structure to be built within
the confines of the town’s zoning laws, although
municipalities are exempt from such details.
The current owner of the property is Kaatskill Associates,
LLC, a company that appears to be one of the many
legal entities established and controlled by developer
Dean Gitter and his partners.
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Snowball!
Heating Up Winter
2/2/2006
By Violet Snow
and Sparrow
We were wrong about the Snow Ball. We expected
the 20th annual Friends of Belleayre Mountain
$150-a-head fundraiser, this year honoring Ulster
County politico and Shandaken native Ward Todd,
to be a dry, stuffy affair. After we loaded Sparrow
into his first-ever tuxedo, borrowed from Phoenicia
Times publisher Brian Powers, and Violet donned
her longest dress, a Tibetan wraparound item she
hadn’t worn for twenty years, we headed
off on assignment with ample trepidation, but
we ended the night dancing up a storm and impressed
with the spirit of the affluent skiing crowd who
band together each year to keep culture and populist
sporting alive in the mountains.
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Administrative
Law Judge Richard R. Wissler Calls for Adjudication
of 12 Resort-Related Issues
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